Team Messaging

Coaches, Team Managers, Parents, & Players can now send and receive messages directly from the GameChanger app. For free. Game canceled? Practice moved indoors? Need help organizing rides home after practice? Team Messaging makes it easier for the entire team to stay on the same page. Or you can just use Team Messaging to share photos and videos from the game!

Team messaging is available inside the app on the bottom right of the home screen. Users must download the app to use the messaging feature (some features not yet available on Android devices- read below).

Here are few additional Team Messaging feature designed to help your team.

CUSTOM GROUP MESSAGING

Not all messages need to be sent to the whole Team Community. Sometimes you may need to message all the players, other times you may only want to message the pitchers. Or create a custom Group Message for your carpool group, rather than the entire team.

We’ve made Team Messaging as flexible as possible to accommodate the wide variety of communication needs between coaches, parents, and players.

MESSAGE READ RECEIPTS

There’s a been a schedule change. The team bus is now departing at 3:30 pm instead of 3:45, so you send a Group Message to your players. It’s now 3:25 and you haven’t heard from several players. Read Receipts allows you see who has viewed the message and who hasn’t, so you’ll know if you need to move to a Plan B before it’s too late (this feature not yet available for Android devices, although those on iOS will see if an Android user has read a message).

SEND PICTURES & VIDEO

Not all communication needs to be around logistics. Perhaps the most requested feature is the ability to share photos and video on GameChanger. Team Messaging makes it easy for parents and fans to share photos and videos from the game with the rest of the team (the ability to send videos is not yet available on Android).

MESSAGING WITH ANDROID DEVICES

We are working hard to make our Android messaging features just as good as those on iOS devices. Currently, Android app users will have the ability to receive/send messages and photos and also create custom groups.

Using Android, it definitely needs an optional feature to receive notifications when you receive a message in the app. A player sent me a text message to tell me she had sent me a message in GameChanger.

On the android app which is currently updated as of today I accidentally created a group message within the app and there's not way to delete a message that is there so it appears people are aware there in a chat thread that don't need to exist. I even went into desktop mode on my desktop and android device and there's not a messaging function in there where at times a coach would rather send a message to the team via his laptop or desktop, yes some of us still have desktop computers in this day and age.

I have a player and her family who are no longer associated with our team. I need the ability to purge them family members from the team community. If I am missing something please point me in the right direction.

Click remove relationship and then they will be moved to the fan section which you don't have to send messages to fans unless you have fans that you actually keep updated. I normally make sure my teamsand parents fall under the family or players category. Maybe after they get tired of receiving fan news they can go in and not be a fan at their own choosing. Anyone can be a fan of a team from what I've read.

Britchie, you can remove the relationship by signing into gc.com and going to the community tab. However, you will not be able to remove them altogether from the team. Any user will be able to follow any team. However, you are able to privatize stats from fans and create unique custom message groups.

Dale, I don't think we will build team messaging into the web version of our product. I understand where you are coming from, but the far majority of ours users use the app and it would take time away from us building other features. I know this isn't what you wanted to hear and I apologize for that

In the future, if you have any questions, please feel free to message us directly at help@gc.com. We are quicker to respond from there. Thanks.